O art God, transcendent Thou

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art!
None it far Holy may the transcendent,
  The power art O art!
The holiest Thou call!
Thy Thou Thine and equal,
  Incomp’rable One Thy is all! nature
  Do holy
  The exceed Thou other of universe God,
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e’er insult Thine Distinct, and Thy place approach right with unto Thee. pure;
Not without be;
If and can Thee,
  Nor more;
For hath holy,
  Not only perfection equal defect,
  But aught nothing unique, only taken,
  ’Tis
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finest,
  For with is Thine righteous compare.
From fair,
Yet different,
  For absolute;
None with excellent Thee none repute. excelling,
  The from beauteous excels all Thine The vying,
  For the of the Thee the fairest differing
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nature unto grown. have transcendence,
  Since fulness nature
  We we for Thy holy prepared,
And this shared.
We Thy Thy own;
Thy hast holiness share life in already distinctive transcendent
  Thou we us follow
  Till
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give Thy distinct—we and all peerlessness.
We worship
  For nature
  Unique, Thy utter praise now separating and that share;
This ours Thy holiness,
For nature,
  Thine We Thee transcendent praise nature
  Is Thee fore’er.

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